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• Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.

  David Mamet

  School, Heart, Player

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• Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

  Ed Roland

  Want, Used

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Lines, Used

  "Timequake". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 9, p. 38), September 22, 1997.

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• Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.

  Susan Orlean

  Car, Soul, Promise

  "Wheels" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.

  Saul Bellow

  Sex, Practice, People

  1987 More Die of Heartbreak.

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• I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

  Dolph Lundgren

  Engineering, People, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

  John Carlos Frey

  Cities, Effort, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

  Guy Ritchie

  Pounds, Video, Nerves

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm better than I used to be.
  Better than I was yesterday.
  But hopefully
  not as good as I'll be tomorrow.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hopefully Not, Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

  Keith Richards

  Kissing, Rocks, Expression

  "Keith Richards: The Rolling Stone 20th Anniversary Interview". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.rollingstone.com. November 05, 1987.

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• My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.

  Bibhu Mohapatra

  Dad, Car, Skins

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• The future just isn't what it used to be

  Jonathan Tropper

  Used

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “Plan B: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Hate, Writing

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Boys, People

  "Rush Limbaugh strikes back at DCCC". www.politico.com. September 17, 2014.

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• There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

  Isaac Bickerstaffe

  Song, Night, Rivers

  Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

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• The confused mass of rules of conduct called law, which has been bequeathed to us by slavery, serfdom, feudalism, and royalty, has taken the place of those stone monsters, before whom human victims used to be immolated, and whom slavish savages dared not even touch lest they should be slain by the thunderbolts of heaven.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Confused, Taken, Law

  Peter Kropotkin (1927). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.

  William Faulkner

  Death, Men, Thinking

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.172, Modern Library

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• I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

  Arjun Rampal

  Athlete, Used, Active

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• It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

  Robertson Davies

  Dog, Taken, Agency

  "Mehitabel". 1959.

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• Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

  Elvis Costello

  Angel, Wings, Shoes

  Song: (the Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, Album: My Aim Is True

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• Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.

  Jessica Alba

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Reflection, Self, Suffering

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers

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• It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.

  Martin Amis

  Men, Age, Faces

  "Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions". Book by Martin Amis, 1993.

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• Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.

  Ray Charles

  Race, Years, Rhythm And Blues

  "Show 55 - Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things". March 8, 1968.

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